Happy Birthday Mom (2001)

Birthday cards

This one I did in a sort of retro 19th-century
Coca-Cola-Ad-style. There was a sort of unexpected
surprise: after I scanned in the artwork, I noticed that the
converging tails of the "th" in "Birthday" -- which meet
inside the "o" of "Mom" -- made an angle which perfectly
reflected the "M"s on either side. That was not
intentional. I considered amending the design post
facto to enhance the similarity by joining the two tails,
but decided against it. Sometimes you have to trust
the aesthetics of a piece.